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The Canada Violet sprouts leaves directly from the stem
Few others can manage such a prodigious feat
My need to revisit this spot deserves no better reason…
Canada Violet, viola canadensis
Chattahoochee WMA
White County, Georgia
Saturday 16 April 2011
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Thirty-two degrees in the Park this morning
Breezy, but not windy
It’s not breezy, closer to windy
Between closer to windy and windy, actually
Better ask my fingers about that
“With the same kind of glove on each hand
Fingers on the right stay really cold
Those on the left always feel warm.”
© d071225-013 Trees by Lake
Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Tuesday 25 December 2007
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This is the North Fork French Broad River along State Road 215, about 7 miles south of the Blue Ridge Parkway. From the boulder’s ledge, I’m looking downstream, and south. All precious fluids passing thru this jam-up spot course due south 10 miles to Rosman, where the River changes its mind with an eastward u-turn bend into the next County, eventually aiming due north thru Asheville, and onward northwest slicing the great mountain barrier at Hot Springs and into the Tennessee Valley. It's never disappointing here.
© d101112-006 Headwaters
North Fork French Broad River
Transylvania County, North Carolina
Friday 12 November 2010
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I return to Marlinton each Spring
And in the Fall whenever possible
It’s an attachment that reaches far beyond
The Greenbrier River that skirts along
The west edge of town
When I return to Marlinton.
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© d100610-009 Greenbrier River
© d100610-010 Main Street
Marlinton, West Virginia
Pocahontas County
Thursday 10 June 2010
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This is an example of what you might have to do to get a truss bridge, a mighty river, and a dandelion all in the same picture.
© d100615-004 Elk River
Webster Springs, West Virginia
Webster County
Tuesday 15 June 2010
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After surviving twelve weeks of punishing drought and consecutive 95 plus degree days, the Park this morning sighed with momentary relief savoring the offerings from last night’s storm.
© d100807-004 Across the Lake
Stone Mountain Park
DeKalb County, Georgia
Saturday 7 August 2010
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A name like Double Culvert Creek tells us nothing about local history and cannot inspire the mind to inquire about traditions, frontier settlements, native American legends, or even the creek’s whereabouts. Yet, those who pass here always pause for a moment’s appreciation. Others stop for the full measure; rushing sounds compressed by the narrow hollow; a fairy tale path obscured by Canada violets; an incautious waterfall slipping over a hard rock ledge. Today, in the mist, in the fog, in the silver morning light Double Culvert Creek never felt more spectacular.
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Cut-leaved toothwort, Dentaria laciniata
Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia
Chattahoochee National Forest
White County, Georgia
Saturday 1 May 2010
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Sweet White Violet, Viola blanda
Crested Iris, Iris crestata
Large Flowered Trillium, Trillium grandiflora
Vernal Iris, Iris verna
Noontootla Creek Watershed
Fannin County Georgia
Saturday 17 April 2010
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The sedate granite outcrop sizzles with rivulets lingering from last Eve’s downpour finding shallow whirlpools and solution channels engraved by ten thousand Christmas mornings like this. Overcast; remarkable silver light. Reflections by hundreds follow the sun striving to break thru. Precious silence interrupted only by an occasional shutter click. I’m sure the romantic poet could easily dash off a few soaring lines for a soaring moment like this. Until then, it’s but a stocking stuffer. I was a good boy after all.
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Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County, Georgia
Friday 25 December 2009
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A day with Fall color
A night with black and white.
© d031017-071 Lake after Sunset
Morganton, Georgia
Fannin County
Friday 17 October 2003
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